
“You do,” I assured him quite calmly. “That is why I am here.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAjSP5Bz2UMz
“How are you acquainted with any of them?” He asked quite seriously, and only424Please respect copyright.PENANAy1Z64aIQ5H
then did his eyes seem to notice my hair, which was blue all over except for its still424Please respect copyright.PENANAGREM9ZFrBd
black tips. “You’re quite the odd one.” He admitted, while he was far from what anyone424Please respect copyright.PENANAwsyrMwdr6u
would deem as ´normal´. “And I do not need my bigger glasses to see that.”424Please respect copyright.PENANArckk0k0QWm
“Here. This is for you,” I tried to hand him my big notebook, the one that had been424Please respect copyright.PENANAzcQr4qLVrk
resting safely beside me. Almost falling out of it was a whole compendium of drawings424Please respect copyright.PENANAsoo0rYMTVI
and other poorly attached notes. “Father wanted you to have it.” I nudged it towards424Please respect copyright.PENANAY0IdTR7J4z
him. “He also wanted me to go with you.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAbRHtDi87KG
“Father, you say?” He cautiously asked as he refused the offer, “I am afraid I will have424Please respect copyright.PENANAeApWGD9HcM
to doubt that. You see little one, I am not one with many friends, let alone associates.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAQWGJLwyl3q
He then took a few steps back “No, you must be mistaken. But fret not, you may424Please respect copyright.PENANA3GpQ7ExGeP
accompany me back to my place, if you so wish of course. After all, it is not proper to424Please respect copyright.PENANAyANWkZrkBf
leave one so small and meek behind, especially in a place like this. Old Gorliochi over424Please respect copyright.PENANAVB6AMd79LZ
there,” His eyes went straight towards that beast; this one was completely relaxed even424Please respect copyright.PENANAKYurM9yxFU
if its jaws kept finding one thing or another to chew on, “he can easily carry the both424Please respect copyright.PENANAEuCPhEpK77
of us for as long as necessary. He has been with me for many seasons now, lending a424Please respect copyright.PENANAt1bIzi2jdw
hand in the carrying of all sorts of things.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAWatyBsF9VS
He smiled, but it was a ruse that could not hope to work on the likes of one such as424Please respect copyright.PENANAsGjJW9rqVJ
me. “Like all sorts of flowers and fungi that I so often like to come and find in these424Please respect copyright.PENANApshUERXHDt
parts... Or even -”424Please respect copyright.PENANAAg7ZSfKeB4
“You are no mere flower picker or mushroom gatherer.” I said as I kept forcing that424Please respect copyright.PENANAv4i9gnXjY0
notebook onto him. “Go on, take it. You are the Thinker-Tinker, and you are meant424Please respect copyright.PENANAMsGNSwTeBQ
to read it.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAqqFUHdc5Y9
A short silence stood between the two of us ...424Please respect copyright.PENANApc3Y5vRSI5
“Your father, who is he then?” He eventually asked, even if his interests appeared424Please respect copyright.PENANArXGbU5hSP4
to be dwindling the more he was going through those notes and drawings, “I know424Please respect copyright.PENANAS52pZisiPB
many of the names inscribed here.” He kept confessing, as he tipped his glasses just424Please respect copyright.PENANAU0K9YSURPS
in time to prevent them from falling off his curved nose; and then he looked at me424Please respect copyright.PENANAXLGtVm1a5k
with refulgent eyes: “Some of these people, they are in these drawings of yours as well!424Please respect copyright.PENANACyyxufxcwu
And this man here; a Kharn. He is my friend. A dear one.”424Please respect copyright.PENANA11I4ilzwnQ
“That is Father,” I said to his amazement ...424Please respect copyright.PENANAWSGgplEfSr
A long pause took over his person.424Please respect copyright.PENANAuBz6TXFns9
Many of his past fears but also promises came to haunt him, and without a424Please respect copyright.PENANA4PECJ0ec12
moment’s notice, his head became occupied with all sorts of questions and possibilities.424Please respect copyright.PENANAeZ1vx16tGe
There were so many ´If ’s´ and ´Buts´ and ´What’s´ swirling in his mind - and in424Please respect copyright.PENANAC0N6lztjO7
the end all I heard him think to himself was: “This is likely to bring me quite the424Please respect copyright.PENANAGmTLXq7Gz8
unwanted trouble, but if there is any chance of truth to it, at all; of a real connection424Please respect copyright.PENANA2uzL8AsT4j
between this little one and that ol’ fool... What choice do I have?”424Please respect copyright.PENANABbbK81BDfD
“Who are you girl?” his eyes swelled up as he confronted me again, “and how did424Please respect copyright.PENANAnexvLBvTCo
you get your hands on all this?”424Please respect copyright.PENANAy5dJ3Fvrht
“As I said, all of it was wrought by my hand.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAher9KU6x8S
“You wrote...” His eyes travelled between note and drawing alike “all this?424Please respect copyright.PENANAzFZOms6HML
What made you do such a thing?” He asked with his eyes now trembling with424Please respect copyright.PENANA0hsK8K27lu
restlessness.424Please respect copyright.PENANAf9EWRPMrCC
“And then you will read it?”424Please respect copyright.PENANASrCXnuqmnm
“Oh, I most definitely will. The spark of curiosity has already been lit inside me.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAErpxFpC1iD
He then reassured me further, “My interest has already peaked way past the point of424Please respect copyright.PENANAzgwbk8yBVe
arousal, don’t you worry.” And after he weighed all of it with both hands; “But I will424Please respect copyright.PENANANStAJo3HGL
have to do so back at my place. You understand that this is quite a lot to go through?”424Please respect copyright.PENANAyNQJ4xqQWF
“Quite,” I replied after I added a few extra notes I had on my person.424Please respect copyright.PENANATH7MVQyOKC
“Besides, I don’t have my reading glasses on me.” He added somewhat flippantly424Please respect copyright.PENANAeEgH4XDo50
“I mean why would I bring them; you know? It’s not like I get to meet little girls424Please respect copyright.PENANAUdzdRaTAmp
carrying tomes for me regularly.”424Please respect copyright.PENANAmGYjFgZpVK
I nodded in concordance, and then he suggested we should make haste. Insisting, as424Please respect copyright.PENANAmDCx1cpqTu
we made our way to that beast, that I should tell him, or rather prepare him, for what424Please respect copyright.PENANAXTK2Dlzhyr
could be in store inside that notebook.424Please respect copyright.PENANAsB0qD1DFNM